Egyptian court orders closure of independent news site Mada Masr

A Cairo court ordered Mada Masr's closure, a 3-million-Egyptian-pound fine and the confiscation of its equipment, citing a 2018 media law that penalises running an unlicensed news website. Editor-in-chief Lina Attalah, already sentenced in absentia in 2024 over the same site, says Mada Masr applied for a licence in 2018 and 2020 and only learned of the rejection during a later prosecution. The site has been blocked inside Egypt since 2017; this is the first of six cases against it in six years to reach trial.

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